Happy World Puppetry Day!
Every year on 21st March it’s International World Puppetry Day! I hope you’re all doing something very puppet-y. As is the custom on WPD, UNIMA International asks one well-known theatre worker to write a message to the puppet community. It’s usually uplifting, historical, or spoken from a particular viewpoint or culture.
This year’s message is written by Prof. Henryk Jurkowski, author of History of European Puppetry: The Twentieth Century. You can read the message in full at UNIMA Australia. This is also the 8th anniversary of the World Puppet Day!
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Sock puppets are not limited to moving mouths. They can shimmy, they can shake, they can bend at the neck (wrist) and again at the ??? (elbow). They can move their heads, they can carry things, they can jump and hop and swim and dance. They can roll over or stand up. They can be startled or soothed and show that physically. I have two that have delighted audiences and me for more than 30 years--sock puppets last! If you build them right, they can be washed and even little babies can play safely with them. Please give the good old sock puppet its proper due!
... Patricia Coffie on What are sock puppets?Last time I counted, I had more than 300 puppets (lots of kinds) and more than 30 years in the puppet playing.
Pat